Improvement in feather-renovators



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICEv VILLIAM G. LUMBARD, OF GEORGETOWN, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN FEATHER-RENOVATORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 108,161, dated October 11, 1370.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, WILLIAM G. LUMBARD, of Georgetown, in the county of Vermillion and State of Illinois, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Feather-Renovators; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawing, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure I is a top view of my invention. Fig. 2 of the drawing is a representation of a central vertical section ofthe same. Fig. 3 is a cross-section taken vertically at rectangles with the section represented in Fig. 2.

My invention relates to means for cleaning and renovating feathers; and consists in providing the renovating-chamber with three separate bottoms, the upper one of which is perforated, whereby the steam from the boiler can be used for drying, as well as cleaning, the feathers 5 also, in providing a flanged tube or passage, through which the renovated feathers may be thrown directly into the bag or ticking.

The letter A of the drawing designates the heater 5 B, the boiler or steam-generator; O, the steam-pipe; and D, the renovating-chamber, in which the feathers are placed.

The bottom of the renovating-chamber is semi-cylindrical in form, in order that the wheel a may reach every part thereof7 throwing the feathers upward, and, after the drying in completed, outward through the passage b.

The cross-bars c on the ends of the spokes of the wheel a have their broad edges placed radially, in order that they may serve partly as fans when it becomes necessary to force the feathers out of the chamber.

d represents the upper partition of the bottom, perforated at c c to admit the steam to the chamber D, for the purpose of cleaning the feathers and imparting to them new life and elasticity. Steam is admitted below this perforated partition at a.

When the feathers have been sufficiently steamed, the steam-pipe is shifted to the opening s, thereby cutting off the supply from the perforated chamber g, and turning it into the lower chamber, h., between the two lower imperforate partitions, 7c and l. The chamber h now becomes a steam-drum or heat-generator, and serves to dry the previouslysteamed content-s of the chamber D.

z z are openings at the upper part of the chamber l1, to permit the steam to escape therefrom.

The passage b is usually in the form of a short rectangular tube. lt is provided with a sliding gate, e, and its edges are bent outward to form the iange u, behind which the edge of the opening of the bag or ticking which is to receive the renovated feathers is fastened.

For convenience in cleaning the renovatingchamber, and to provide a means for introducing and securing the journals ofthe wheel, the lower or semi-cylindrical portion, p, is

formed separate from the upper part, q, and is secured thereto by suitable bolts, or hooks and staples t t.

After the end of the steam-pipe is shifted from the opening u to the openings, the former is free to admit air into the chamber D, wh ereby a draft is set up which accelerates the drying of the feathers.

What I claim as my invention, and de ;irc to secure by Letters Patent, is

The feather-renovating chamber D, made in two sections, provided with the iianged passage-way b, having slide c, and having perforated partition d and partition k, dividing its bottom into two chambers, g It, having openings a s, designed to admit steam thereto from the shifting steam-pipe O, in the manner and for the purposes shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presL ence of two witnesses.

WVM. Gr. LUMB LRD.

Witnesses:

W. L. REED, PLEASANT WEST. 

